Automatic forwarding-sheet for loose-leaf ledgers.



No. 799,971. PATBNTED SEPT. 19, 1905.

- J. L. BYUS. AUTOMATIC FORWARDING SHEET FOR LOOSE LEAF LEDGBRS.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 26, 1905.

Hemp Warehouse Record MANILA SI UNITED STATES gP ATENT OFFICE JOSEPH L. BYIIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

AUTOMATIC FORWARDlNG-SHEET FOR LOOSE-LEAF LEDGERS Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1.705.

Application filed June 26, 1905- Serial No. 266,928.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. BYUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in'Automatic Forwarding-Sheets for Loose also providing duplicate fastening-apertures or equivalentregistering marks or indications on the sheets, thereby enabling the successive sheets to be shifted in relation to each other and the cut-away portion opposite the footing or Forward item thus be made to register with the initial item in the heading group of the succeeding page.

A ledger-sheet embodying my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 illustrates a plan of two overlying sheets, the top sheet being partly broken away to more clearly show the relative position of the sheets; and Fig. 2- represents a transverse vertical section through a portion of two successive sheets, taken as indicated by the line A B in Fig. 1.

The sheets illustrated in the drawings are designed for use in hemp-warehouses to keep record of the various fiber stocks and is entitled Hemp warehouse record. Although these sheets are intended for use in connection with loose-leaf binders, no such binder is shown, as it is not deemed essential to a clear understanding of the present improvement. The number of rooms or warehouses in which the stock is kept, the nature of the records themselves, the kind and quality of stock are all factors which assist in determining the size of the sheets and the number of groups and columns thereon. The specimen-sheet herein shown constitutes a single application of the improvement to meet specific require- 5 ments.

In the drawings, 1 designates the top specimen-sheet, and 1 asecond or successive sheet which is an exact duplicate of the first, the two sheets being shifted transversely in relation to each other for a purpose hereinafter described. A plurality of columns arranged parallel and laterally with respect to each other are formed in series,-one series being employed for each warehouse, as A, B, C, &c., and all being alike except as to the letter which designates the particular series. The first column in each series is preferably a group of headings a, consisting in this particular instance of four itemsviz., On hand, Received, Delivered, and Forward. Parallel and lateral with respect to this group of headings are the plurality of corresponding columns of entry 6, provided with top headings descriptive of the stock-such as Manila, Sisal, &c.-and subheadingssuch as Cebu, Good (1, Current, &c.the said top headings applying to the blank column of entries in each of the series A, B, O, &c. In each blank column of entry I) opposite the Forward item in the group of headings a is provided acut-away portion 0, its length corresponding with the combined width of the said columns of entry. Blank spaces, such as d, are left at intervals in order to provide suitable connecting and strengthening webs, such as d, between the long, narrow, and otherwise disconnected strips 0. In practice the Forward item of the top sheet is made to register with the "On hand item on the succeeding sheet, or, speaking more generally, the footing or concluding item on the top sheet is made to register with the On hand or initial item of the succeeding sheet. This will cause the cut-away portion 0, opposite the concluding or Forward item on the first page, to register with the blank space or spaces in the columns of entry opposite the On hand item in the group of headings. To illustrate, assume that in warehouse J the top sheet shows four thousand pounds of Good O. on hand. During that day six thousand pounds were received and three thousand shipped out, leaving on hand seven thousand pounds, which would be placed within the cut-away portion 0 opposite the Forward item in the group of headings onthe top sheet and in the blank space in the column of entry opposite the On hand item on the second sheet. In this way only a single entry of the item forwarded is required. After a record of the days work is spread upon the first or top sheet 1 in the above described manner the first sheet is shifted to proper position .again'and the second sheet 1 is shifted until it registers with the succeeding sheet as the first one did with it. To facilitate the shifting of the sheets and to hold them in proper relative position, duplicate fastening-apertures f and f are provided in the margins thereof. When in normal position, one set of the aperturesfor instance, fwill receive the fastenings, while in its shifted position the apertures f will receive same. The distance f between the apertures f and f will be governed by the amount of shift required or by the distance between the initial and concluding items, which in this instance is the distance between the Forward and On hand items in any one of the series A, B, O, &c., this distance being also indicated by f in the series D.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Automatic forwarding-sheets for looseleaf ledgers, said sheets each containing a group of headings, including therein a Forward item, acolumn of entry adjacent to and parallel with said group of headings, the said column of entry having a cut-away portion therein opposite the Forward item in the group of headings, and duplicate indications on each sheet for enabling said sheets to be moved transversely a definite amount in relation to each other, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. Automatic forwarding-sheets for looseleat' ledgers, said sheets each containing a group of headings, including therein an initial item and aconcluding item at the top and bottom,respectively, of said group, a column of entry having a cut-away portion therein 0pposite the concluding item in'the group of headings, and duplicate indications on each sheet for enabling said sheets to be moved transversely a definite amount in relation to each other, the distance between said duplicate indications corresponding with the distance between the initial and concludingitems in said group of headings, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. Automatic forwarding-sheets for looseleaf ledgers, said sheets ach containing a plurality of vertically-arranged groups of headings, including therein an initial item and a concluding item at the top and bottom, respectively, of said groups, a plurality of columns of entry arranged laterally of and parallel with respect to the said groups of headings, the said columns of entry each having a cut-away portion therein opposite the concluding item in each group of headings, and duplicate sheet-fastening apertures in the sheets whereby the successive sheets may be moved a definite amount in relation to each other, the distance between said sheet-fastening apertures corresponding with the distance be tween the initial and concluding items in said groups of headings, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOSEPH L. BYUS.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. HENDERSON, J. O. VVARNES. 

